A law macaroni [graphic].

Description

Title: A law macaroni [graphic].
Creator: Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Contributor: Darly, M. publisher.
Published / Created: [16 February 1772]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. by MDarly, Strand, Feby. 16th, 1772, accor. to act
Abstract: "Portrait of a man, whole length, walking in profile to left. He wears a macaroni wig with a looped and bound club, and a cravat over a pair of bands. His long gown reaches to the ground. His right hand holds a rolled document, his left is on his hip."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from caption below image.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram. M. Darly for Mary Darly or Matthew (or Matthias) Darly the printmaker. See British Museum catalogue.
State without volume number. For a later state with additional numbering, see no. 4996 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Plate numbered "13" in upper right corner.
Provenance: Suckling; February 1960;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 17.7 x 12.6 cm, on sheet 20.8 x 15.3 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1772
Etchings England London 1772
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
England.
Subject (Topic): Clothing & dress
Dandies
British
Lawyers
Neckties
Wigs
Subjects: Clothing & dress > England > 18th century
Dandies > British
Lawyers > England
Neckties
Wigs
England > 1772
England > London > 1772

Access: Public
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